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255590 Dave Leader <daveldr@c...> 2015‑07‑30 Re: Amber Shellac .... used on garden shovel
Galoots, One and All,

Frank Filippone wrote:
snip/
Had an open can of Zinsser's amber shellac.. And some cosmetic pads (
which 
I use for application, when it is not fine furniture) 
/snip
Anyway, padded on a few coats, and the wood is simply beautiful...  
MUCH 
better than they looked a week ago.. 
Amazing the purposes you can put shellac to.. 


After the thread about John, and the mention of Jim, the other day, This
brought to mind another. 
Whatever the problem, the answer is shellac. The ranks are thinning.

Dave Leader
255595 rock harris <nombre7@g...> 2015‑07‑31 Re: Amber Shellac .... used on garden shovel
Reminds me of something that I was told when I was out buying (high
quality) denatured alcohol for my shellac flakes: "Man, I don't know anyone
who makes their own shellac anymore."

Really? Not like it's difficult or anything. Not like building a chair....

rock harris
programming god, budding dilettante furnituremaker, analog photographer,
and aficionado of obsolete machinery
st. louis, mo
314.221.5941

Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 6:59 PM, Dave Leader  wrote:

>
> After the thread about John, and the mention of Jim, the other day, This
> brought to mind another.
> Whatever the problem, the answer is shellac. The ranks are thinning.
>
> Dave Leader
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255598 Claudio DeLorenzi <claudio@d...> 2015‑07‑31 Re: Amber Shellac .... used on garden shovel
>
> Denatured alcohol Not in Canada!


I try to pick up a gallon when I drive over the border to the USA
It's not available in Canada anymore, except in a different form meant to
use as a bio fuel.  I spoke to the chemist and he said we should not use it
for shellac for some reason that was proprietary (ie what was in the 4 %
that was not ethanol).

Oddly enough, methanol is readily available, but this is far more toxic
than ethanol!  Don't you hate it when pencil heads make the regulations?
255600 Don Schwartz <dks@t...> 2015‑07‑31 Re: Amber Shellac .... used on garden shovel
FWIW, Everclear is readily available in Alberta!

D

Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure
foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow

On 2015-07-31 11:52 AM, Claudio DeLorenzi wrote:
>> >Denatured alcohol Not in Canada!
> I try to pick up a gallon when I drive over the border to the USA
> It's not available in Canada anymore, except in a different form meant to
> use as a bio fuel.
255623 Kevin Wilkinson <kevinpatrickwilkinson@g...> 2015‑08‑01 Re: Amber Shellac .... used on garden shovel
In Vermont you have to sign a form that goes to the Secretary of State's
office that you will be using the Everclear for something other than
drinking.

On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Don Schwartz  wrote:

> FWIW, Everclear is readily available in Alberta!
>
> D
>
> Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure
> foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.
> Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow
>
> On 2015-07-31 11:52 AM, Claudio DeLorenzi wrote:
>
>> >Denatured alcohol Not in Canada!
>>>
>> I try to pick up a gallon when I drive over the border to the USA
>> It's not available in Canada anymore, except in a different form meant to
>> use as a bio fuel.
>>
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255630 "yorkshireman@y..." <yorkshireman@y...> 2015‑08‑02 Re: Amber Shellac .... used on garden shovel
In England it’s Her Majesty that decides if you may purchase pure alcohol.  

I have such a certificate, so I do.  

Since I was licensed, it seems some ‘outdoors’ site ran an article about how
pure alcohol being hotter burning in your alcohol stove than the public purple
dyed version, and the man who does licences somewhere deep in Her Majesty’s
Revenue and Customs department was suddenly inundated with people wanting the
stuff.  After a short while, so I understand, they tightened up their decisions,
so ‘the public’  - bless ‘em - can’t wake him up so easily.

Richard Wilson
Happily not drinking the stuff in Northumberland.





> On 1 Aug 2015, at 23:02, Kevin Wilkinson  wrote:
> 
> In Vermont you have to sign a form that goes to the Secretary of State's
> office that you will be using the Everclear for something other than
> drinking.
> 
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Don Schwartz  wrote:
> 
>> FWIW, Everclear is readily available in Alberta!
>> 
>> D
>> 
>> Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure
>> foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.
>> Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow
>> 
>> On 2015-07-31 11:52 AM, Claudio DeLorenzi wrote:
>> 
>>>> Denatured alcohol Not in Canada!
>>>> 
>>> I try to pick up a gallon when I drive over the border to the USA
>>> It's not available in Canada anymore, except in a different form meant to
>>> use as a bio fuel.
>>> 
>> 
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> Proctor, VT
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